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	Juniper takes on Cisco, HP in 'simple' networking Juniper this week unveiled a portfolio of switching, wireless and security products designed to enable enterprises to easily deploy them and then ensure management and security of all connected mobile devices. Read More WHITE PAPER: Palo Alto Networks Understanding and Selecting an Enterprise Firewall This Securosis white paper analyzes the disruption happening at the enterprise perimeter, the various technical architectures capable of addressing the new requirements, and deployment considerations for optimal security, availability, and performance. Read now! In this Issue Teach your router new tricks with DD-WRT 8 piles of paper replaced by iPads Telecom bill cramming impacts IT's bottom line Are CIOs too cocky about security? Office work is so last century, Forrester reports Cisco security advisory day Softbank announces 110 Mbps network, may handle iPhones Wisegate social networking connects IT executives to each other for business networking QLogic unveils upgrades to converged network products Wireless, security researchers among early-career scientists recognized by Obama WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Application Delivery 2.0 Handbook This comprehensive handbook offers guidance on ensuring application delivery with a systematic approach. Read More Teach your router new tricks with DD-WRT With each passing year, hardware devices grow less dependent on proprietary components and more reliant on open source technologies. Network routers are among the main beneficiaries of this trend, especially those that can support a variety of third-party open source firmware projects. Read More 8 piles of paper replaced by iPads Pilots, preachers, politicians and football teams among those taking the plunge with the Apple iPad tablet computer. Read More Telecom bill cramming impacts IT's bottom line Unauthorized charges on enterprise telecom bills are getting more sophisticated and harder to detect. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies The Most Important Metric for your VMs The management tools selected to support virtualization is essential to the ability of IT to grow the virtual environment without proportionately increasing the staff to manage all of the new physical host servers and their guest VMs. Learn More Are CIOs too cocky about security? The ninth annual Global Information Security Survey conducted by CSO magazine and PricewaterhouseCoopers indicates the vast majority of tech and business execs are overconfident about their security policies. Read More Office work is so last century, Forrester reports The days of IT workers going to the same office for work every day are apparently over, according to a new survey from Forrester Research. Read More Cisco security advisory day Cisco today unveiled a slew of security advisories on several vulnerabilities in its IOS software. In all, there look to be eight or nine advisories on IOS, dealing with issues like IPv6 over MPLS, IP service level agreements, SIP, NAT, IPv6 DoS and more. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies The Value of Service-Centric Visibility IT organizations are under pressure to avert problems before they occur. To achieve the proactive approach required and move to the next level of service delivery, they need "service-centric" visibility that ties infrastructure components to the services that rely on them. Read More Softbank announces 110 Mbps network, may handle iPhones Softbank, Japan's third-largest mobile carrier and exclusive purveyor of the Apple iPhone in the country, will launch a new data network allowing downloads of up to 110 Mbps (megabits per second), faster than many wired connections provide today. Read More Wisegate social networking connects IT executives to each other for business networking You've heard the phrase, "It's lonely at the top." Companies, after all, only have one CISO. Now there is a social network service called Wisegate that connects IT executives to each other so they have someone to bounce things off of. Wisegate is intentionally exclusive to keep the insight more valuable. Read More QLogic unveils upgrades to converged network products QLogic today announced upgrades to its line of converged network adapters, as well as a new switch and router product that can consolidate LAN traffic. Read More Wireless, security researchers among early-career scientists recognized by Obama President Obama this week recognized 94 early-career scientists and researchers, including those advancing network security and wireless communications. Read More
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